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Author: Kate Theimer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0810890941

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Description: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections explores how archives of different sizes and types can enhance the accessibility of their holdings. The book uses eleven case studies to demonstrate innovative ideas that could be transferred into many other settings. Case studies cover Crowdsourcing the Description of Collections Early Experiences with Implementing EAC-CPF Conducting a Comprehensive Survey to Reveal a Hidden Repository Getting a Diverse Backlog of Legacy Finding Aids Online A Collaborative Standards-Based Approach to Creating Item-Level Metadata for Digitized Archival Materials Creating Policies and Procedures for Mandatory Arrangement and Description by Records Creators Collaboration in Cataloging: Sourcing Knowledge from Near and Far for a Challenging Collection Using LibGuides to Rescue Paper Ephemera from the Bibliographic Underbrush Describing Records, People, Organizations and Functions: The Empowering the User Project’s Flexible Archival Catalogue Integrating Born-Digital Materials into Regular Workflows Describing Single Items for Discovery and Access These successful and innovative practices will help archivists and special collections librarians better describe their collections so that they can be successfully accessed and users can locate the right materials. Readers can use these as models, sources of inspiration, or starting points for new discussions. The volume will be useful to those working in archives and special collections as well as other cultural heritage organizations, and provides ideas ranging from those that require long-term planning and coordination to ones that could be immediately implemented. It also provides students and educators in archives, library, and public history graduate programs a resource for understanding the variety of ways materials are being described in the field today and the kinds of strategies archivists are using to ensure collections can be found by the people who want to use them.

Past Or Portal?
Past Or Portal?

Author: Eleanor Mitchell

Publisher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0838986102

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In the age of ubiquitous access to information, library special collections and archives have received renewed attention through digitization projects designed to share collections with the world at large. Yet these materials also offer opportunities for student learning through direct engagement with rare or unique items. While special collections and archives have largely been used by advanced researchers and scholars, an increasing number of undergraduate courses are taking advantage of these materials as guides in the instructional process.

Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections

Author: Library of Congress

Publisher: Library

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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The Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress contains approximately 650,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, title pages, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The division's holdings encompass nearly all eras and subjects and it maintains special collections as well as the general collection which reflects its strengths and contains at least a few books about virtually every subject that the Library of Congress as a whole collects. This guide contains descriptions and examples of the following collections: American History; American Literature; Europe; the Book Arts; and the Illustrated Book. A list of the 149 special collections is also included. Many illustrations showing items from the collections are included. (JLB)

The Riot Grrrl Collection
The Riot Grrrl Collection

Author: Lisa Darms

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2015-01-19

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1558619097

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Archival material from the 1990s underground movement “preserves a vital history of feminism” (Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling). For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak out against sexism and oppression, creating a powerful new force of liberation and unity within and outside of the women’s movement. While feminist bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile fought for their place in a male-dominated punk scene, their members and fans developed an extensive DIY network of activism and support. The Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and ’90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an introduction by Lisa Darms.

George A. Romero
George A. Romero

Author: Tom Fallows

Publisher: Pocket Essentials

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842432822

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The dead walk. Putrid corpses claw their way out of earthy graves and stumble towards civilisation. They are bloody, rotting and hungry for human flesh - and it's all George Romero's fault. With 1968's Night of the Living Dead, Romero unleashed the modern zombie onto cinemas, annihilating their voodoo roots and resurrecting them as passed away friends and dead loved ones. This Pocket Essential examines Romero's work up to and including his latest film Diary of the Dead, and explains why filmmakers like Tarantino and Scorsese often refer to him as horror's greatest living director.